California Native Plant Society

WE'RE ON A MISSION TO SAVE CALIFORNIAS NATIVE PLANTS AND PLACES USING BOTH HEAD AND HEART. CNPS BRINGS TOGETHER SCIENCE, EDUCATION, CONSERVATION, AND GARDENING TO POWER THE NATIVE PLANT MOVEMENT.

PLANT SCIENCECNPS CONTINUES TO SERVE AS A STATEWIDE AUTHORITY ON RARE NATIVE PLANTS, NATIVE VEGETATION MAPPING AND MONITORING, AND THE MANAGEMENT OF CALIFORNIA'S PLANT BIODIVERSITY. IN 2022, CNPS WORKED WITH COMMUNITY MEMBERS, FELLOW RESEARCHERS, LAND MANAGERS, AND GOVERNMENT AGENCIES TO ENSURE BEST SCIENCE ABOUT CALIFORNIA NATIVE PLANTS IS AVAILABLE FOR DECISION-MAKING. THE RARE PLANT PROGRAM LAUNCHED A MOBILE FRIENDLY PLATFORM OF THE CALIFORNIA RARE PLANT INVENTORY, SEED-BANKED 32 RARE PLANT TAXA, CONDUCTED 24 RARE PLANT STATUS REVIEWS, CONTRIBUTED 1,000 PLANT VOUCHERS, PROVIDED 59 RARE PLANT SPECIES ACCOUNTS AND FINALIZED 238 RARE PLANT PROFILES TO THE U.S. FOREST SERVICE, AND VISITED 164 RARE PLANT OCCURRENCES WITH MORE THAN 200 VOLUNTEER PARTICIPANTS FOR THE RARE PLANT TREASURE HUNT. THE VEGETATION PROGRAM INITIATED 3 VEGETATION SAMPLING AND FINE-SCALE MAPPING PROJECTS IN THE NORTH COAST RANGES, CENTRAL COAST, AND MOLOK LUYUK, COLLECTING OVER 1,055 SURVEYS REPRESENTING OVER 150 VEGETATION ALLIANCES. MANUAL OF CALIFORNIA VEGETATION UPDATES INCLUDED ADDING AT LEAST 10 ALLIANCES AND REVISING AT LEAST 25 ALLIANCES. THE PROGRAM ALSO PROVIDED 2 EARLY CAREER BOTANIST TRAININGS, 3 CHAPTER TRAININGS, AND ENGAGED AT LEAST 50 VOLUNTEERS IN INTERNS IN VEGETATION INVENTORY EFFORTS. THE IMPORTANT PLANT AREA PROGRAM COMPLETED THE FIRST ITERATION OF ITS STATEWIDE MAP OF CALIFORNIA'S IMPORTANT PLANT AREAS, TOTALING 22 MILLION ACRES. THE CNPS BIODIVERSITY INITIATIVES GROUP LAUNCHED ITS WORK ON THE CALIFORNIA SEED STRATEGY, CONTRIBUTED TO STATEWIDE PLANNING FOR NATURE-BASED SOLUTIONS, ADVANCED COMMUNITY SCIENCE LAUNCHED IN POST-WILDFIRE FOOTPRINTS WITH MORE THAN 100,000 OBSERVATIONS, AND LAUNCHED AN INTERACTIVE EAST BAY GARDEN PLANNING TOOL WITH NEWLY DEVELOPED LOCAL NATIVE PLANT LISTS FOR GARDENING.

CONSERVATIONTHE CNPS CONSERVATION PROGRAM IS FOCUSED ON THE ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW, LEGAL ACTION, AND ADVOCACY NEEDED TO PROTECT CALIFORNIA NATIVE PLANTS AND HABITATS TODAY AND INTO THE FUTURE. IN 2022, THE TEAM HELPED LEAD COALITION EFFORTS TO PERMANENTLY PROTECT MOLOK LUYUK THROUGH THE EXPANSION OF BERRYESSA SNOW MOUNTAIN NATIONAL MONUMENT, CONTINUED ITS FIGHT TO PROTECT TEJON RANCH, AND PROVIDED IMPORTANT ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW ON TIMBER HARVEST PLANS, WILDFIRE VEGETATION TREATMENT PROJECTS, UPDATES TO DESERT CONSERVATION PLANNING, AND VARIOUS PROJECTS ACROSS THE STATE. IN ADDITION, THE TEAM PRODUCED AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY ON WILDFIRE SCIENCE, DEVELOPED CONTENT FOR A CONSERVATION ADVOCACY TOOLKIT, AND HELPED ADVANCE THE STATE'S GOAL TO PROTECT 30% OF ITS LANDS AND WATERS BY 2030.

ENGAGEMENT AND OUTREACHCNPS AIMS TO SUPPORT LIFELONG RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN NATIVE PLANTS AND PEOPLE OF ALL BACKGROUNDS THROUGH EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMMING, LOCAL CHAPTERS, PUBLICATIONS, EVENTS, ONLINE CHANNELS, ADVOCACY, COMMUNITY SCIENCE, AND GARDENING. IN OCTOBER, THE ORGANIZATION HOSTED ITS FIRST MAJOR CONFERENCE SINCE 2018. MORE THAN 1,200 PEOPLE ATTENDED THE SOLD-OUT EVENT TITLED "ROOTING TOGETHER: RESTORING CONNECTIONS TO PLANTS, PLACE & PEOPLE. THE EVENT, WHICH WAS FEATURED IN THE LA TIMES, INCLUDED IMPORTANT PRESENTATIONS FROM INDIGENOUS AND OTHER BIPOC SPEAKERS ON TOPICS RANGING FROM LAND BACK AND SCHOOL NATURE GARDENS TO GOOD FIRE. ALSO IN 2022, CNPS CO-PRODUCED AND LAUNCHED THE AWARD-WINNING DOCUMENTARY, SAGING THE WORLD; PUBLISHED AN INDIGENOUS-LED EDITION OF FLORA MAGAZINE; RESUMED ITS POPULAR PLANT SCIENCE WORKSHOPS; BEGAN WORK ON A MULTI-YEAR SCHOOL NATURE GARDENS INTERPRETIVE PROGRAM; AND FAR EXCEEDED ITS BLOOM! CALIFORNIA CAMPAIGN GOAL TO INCREASE NATIVE PLANT SALES ACROSS THE STATE BY 20%.